The USS "Edsall," a 314-foot-long destroyer, fought off Japanese forces for more than an hour before sinking beneath the ...

The “Dancing Mouse”—the Clemson-class destroyer more formally known as the USS Edsall—and its more-than-200 servicemen went ...

A Phoenix police officer is being hailed as a hero after he rescued a driver from a car submerged in a swimming pool by ...

A 223-year-old Washington, DC estate that once served as the secret strategic base for a World War II general was recently ...

As thousands of U.S. and Filipino service members were captured and interned at POW camps, Swartz was among those reported ...

Ulrich Renz, a former head of The Associated Press German-language service who also covered trials of leaders of the ...

Resistance soon took place in different ways after Charles de Gaulle encouraged the fight to continue after the impending ...

On Thursday, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that U.S. Army Air Force Staff Sgt. Ralph L. Mourer, 23, ...

PRAGS, Italy — In a little-known chapter in the waning days of World War II, U.S. troops rescued more than 130 political ...

President-elect Donald Trump has promised to invoke a little-known, 226-year-old law to deport some immigrants from the US.

Throughout the last century, the U.S. armed forces resorted to asbestos-containing products as World War II demanded ...

When composer Mason Bates approached Michael Chabon about turning his novel “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” into ...